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A civil nosegayA ciuile nosgay
A civil nosegay wherein is contained not only the office and duty of all magistrates and judges but also of of [sic] all subjects with a preface concerning the liberty of justice in this our time newly collected and gathered out of latin and so translated in to the English tongue by I.G.A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G.
printed for John goodale, 1550printed for Ihon goodale, 1550
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¶ contrariwise is equity or epiceia / papirius dictator, who when 1he had accused Fabius, Marcus, Equitus, of treason. Yet the people entreating & making petition for him, was forgiven. In the digests at pompius law of parricides.
¶ •ontrarywyse is equite or epiceia / papirius dictatour, who when 1he had accused Fabius, Marcus, Equitus, of treason. Yet the people entretynge & makyng peticion for hym, was forgyuen. In the digestꝭ at pompius lawe of parricides.
- 1Papirius.
¶ The Emperor Adrian, him, 1who had killed his Son, because he had adulterated his Stepmother, commanded so to be brought forth, that with the extremity of the Law the privy murder might the more hardly be avenged, but he did adhibit to the counsel a circumstance, as who saith the very dolour and sorrow of his father. At Gellius the .xiiij. Book and the .vii. Chapter, the Areopagites 2delivered a woman Smyrneam ⟨image 19⟩that had killed her Son, and her Husband be poisoning, who had first killed the woman's Son that was borne in the former Marriage, gave sentence because the cause should be known again an hundred years after, that thus they neither do allow the cruel mischiefs did, and yet they forgive the pain, because of the very dolour and sorrow of the Mother, like Equity, the Gods be feigned to use in remitting. Mars and Orestes, for they forgave the pain, for the very just and right dolour because Mars had avenged the stupre of his daughter, &, Orestes his fathers death. These